The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-07

/ ner; a. that its difficulties not greater than
| can be surmounted by any intelligent pupil; e.
that the cause of the lamentable condition os
study with regard to touch is due, In very large
! majority OF cases, to incompetent instruction. y
/ He closed with showing that certificates of COM
| potency given to such teachers can prove that
| they have attained to the required standard of
| knowledge and skill would be q means
/ of protection and relief TO every reputable
teacher in the country from the annoyance and
! mischief wrought by Recommendations which
1 are extracted on all sorts of pleas aud not in
| frequently exist only in the imaginations of
those who desire to profit by them. A teacher
| who deserves patronage will prefer the indorse-
ment OF an organization, which is bestowed on
account of merit, and such an organization is the
American College of Musicians the ally OF the
competent music teacher"
Mr. Bowman's paper discussed by W. n.
Sherwood and John S. Van Cleve, the Cincin-
natl critic. Mr.. Sherwood spoke of the difficulty
a natural standpoint The difficulty of acguir-
ing the singing quality of tone is partly due to
tie nature of the piano. The prevailing methods
or piano practice students and authorities seem
to have practiced upon the piano too much from
a mechanical stand point They seem to have
ignored the study of music first. Mr. Sherwood
heartily indorsed the American college,
Mr.. Van Cleve made brief and witty speech,
contrasting intellect and emotion in the musician,
and asserting that brain was quite necessary
for the artist red blood. He said that music
was In the highest sense artificial. and that mere
raw emotion went for next to nothing in art.
Miss Marie Groebl, of New York. in a rich
cOntr&itO, sung ScluDertS SereDaQ0" ana
Schumann's "Widmung." She is a brunette,
tall with fine oval face. extremely mobe and
sang with feeling ard expression.
Mr.. Bowman, on account of other duties
asked to be relieved from serving on the COM
mittee on nomn atoms. His request was granted.
Nice-presidenis' reports were called for, and re-
ports were made from Louisiana, Oregon, New
York. Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Connections.
Pennsylvania Minnesota, North Carolina, On
tario Rhode Island, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio. In
diana. Iowa and Kentucky.
Prof. X. de Roode, who reported for Ken
lucky, concluded his report in the following
words: sit is only by improving the taste of
the masses that we hope to make them distin-
guish in course of time, between good and bad
teaching. AS fer myself. / refuse to teach any
child unless the mother will come with her at
each lesson and agree daily to supervise her
practice for at least the first year.
l have found this plan to bear
good results. The ruin inflicted nearly all
chidrens voices by good hearted but incompe-
tent Sunday school superntendents who insist
on children singing loud cannot be estimated.
without exception in the United States should
produce the finest voices In the land. There
some superb voices there, and there would be
many more but for the fact alluded to and the
total absence of popular musical education. The
amount of money annually spent criminal
prosecutions in Kentucky would make that State
foremost literature and art if applied for those
purposes. and the people Of that State, if better
educated, woulo become in exactly that ratio
better citizens. I close by expressing the hope
that this condition of affairs may exist at dis
tant future"
He also asked that the association consider
the matter of life insurance feature for mem
bers, but the motion in which 1t was embodied,
was laid on the table, aud the business session
"A a.